BOONE—Winners of the Hayes School of Music’s Concerto-Aria Competition perform with the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra Feb. 28 at Appalachian State University. The free performance begins at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Directing is Dr. James Allen Anderson.

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Violinist Rachael Elizabeth Kistler will perform “Introduction & Rondo capriccioso” by Camille Saint-Saëns. Cellist Hannah Utley will perform “Hungarian Rhapsody” by David Popper.

The orchestra also will perform “Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, op. 36” by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Kistler began her violin studies with Suzuki teacher Paula Zimmerman of Hickory at the age of two. Now a sophomore in the Hayes School of Music, she studies with Dr. Nancy Bargerstock. Kistler won the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s concerto competition in April 2005. She is a member of the Liberace String Quartet, coached by Eric Koontz at Appalachian. Kistler is concertmaster of the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Asheville Symphony’s first violin section, and recently won the Western Piedmont Symphony’s assistant concertmaster chair.

A graduate of Southwest Guilford High School in High Point, Utley has been studying cello for 16 years. She is currently a senior at Appalachian, studying with Dr. Kenneth Lurie. Utley has been a member of the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra and the Appalachian Chamber Orchestra since her freshman year, including a semester as principal cellist in the Appalachian Symphony. She is also active in other ensembles at Appalachian, including Collegium Musicum, the Cello Ensemble and the Liberace String Quartet.

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